HUGH HOOD’S NEAR WATER : JOURNEY TO THE ‘ NEXT WORLD ’
Journal Title: Advance Research Journal of Multidisciplinary Discoveries - Year 2017, Vol 19, Issue 19
Abstract
John Blagdon Hugh Hood was born of mixed ethnic ancestry in Toronto on 30 April 1928. He has strong historical connections to Quebec, eastern Ontario, Nova Scotia, and more remotely to Britain. His mother’s grandmother, a Quebecker named Aubeline Lemieux married a sea Captain named Blagdon from Levis. Hood’s maternal grandfather, Alfred Esdras Blagdon, married Eugenie Sauriol from eastern Ontario and settled in Toronto. Hood’s paternal grandfather, John, was born in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, and was a descendant of Admiral Samuel Hood, member of a famous naval family from Birdport, England. He married Katherine MacDonald from Antigonish and lived in Nova Scotia. It is therefore, not surprising to find in Hood a sense of a single, yet bilingual Canada. He even remembers hearing French spoken around his home from earliest childhood. Hugh Hood received all his formal education in English, attending Catholic parish and in his high schools at where he received his grounding in Catholic doctrine and liturgy and in Scripture. His doctoral thesis on “Theories of Imagination in English Thinkers 1650-1790”got him Ph. D. degree from the University of Toronto in 1955. After teaching in Hartford, Connecticut, for six years, in 1961, he settled in Montreal and taught English literature ever since in the French milieu of the university of Montreal. He is fluently bilingual, and several of his books create a bicultural ambiance that bears witness to his perception of Canada as a dual nation in which minority French culture still possesses a strong sense of itself…..To read full article click the download link.
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Dr. A. R. Uma Ramamoorthy
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